CLS Benelux 2026

Meet trusted, community-based vendors in a relaxed setting that feels personal

• 11:40-12:10          |          12:10-12:40         |          12:40-13:10

FIRESIDE CHAT:

Translating technical risk into decisions that actually move the board has always been hard. Under NIS2, with personal liability now part of the equation, the pressure to get it right has sharpened considerably. This panel explores how security leaders are shifting from threat reporting to financial risk narratives that secure budget, drive real decisions and position security as a genuine business enabler.

Meet trusted, community-based vendors in a relaxed setting that feels personal

• 11:40-12:10          |          12:10-12:40         |          12:40-13:10

KEYNOTE:

This session takes the audience inside a real attack. The methodical process of observing an organisation from the outside, connecting people, systems and routines, and finding the gap that was always there.

The audience sees which signals were missed, where the bank could have intervened, and how small changes would have shut the door before it was ever opened.

The lesson: attackers don't win at the point of breach. They win long before it.

PANEL DISCUSSION:

The threat landscape keeps expanding while headcount and budget rarely keep pace, and the expectation to do more with less isn't a talking point, it's simply where the job sits right now. Nobody in this room needs that explained to them, which is rather the point. This session is about what leaders actually do with that reality: how they decide where their time and effort go when there's more of everything except them, how they shift from being the person who solves every problem to the person who builds a team and a business that can solve its own, and whether regulation, so often treated as a burden, can instead become the thing that finally gets the rest of the organisation pulling in the same direction.

FIRESIDE CHAT:

Identity is the most consistent thread running through real world breaches, and as environments fragment and machine identities multiply, the problem is outpacing most teams. This panel covers three of the most pressing challenges right now: managing access through constant organisational change, detecting insider threats before they escalate, and governing non-human identities without becoming a blocker to engineering.

PANEL DISCUSSION:

Most security teams have blamed people for years, and most have responded with more training that gets ignored on principle. This panel is for the CISOs who've stopped treating human behaviour as the problem and started looking at the design around it, the workflows, the friction, the number of steps between a good instinct and an approved action. That means fewer rules and more design, and it means trusting people with judgement rather than routing everything through an escalation path built for an organisation half the size.

Meet trusted, community-based vendors in a relaxed setting that feels personal

• 15:30-16:00          |          16:00-16:30

KEYNOTE:

Drawing on the Darwinian idea of “survival of the fittest,” organizational fitness today is no longer defined by preventing every attack. Instead, resilient enterprises shift from a narrow defense mindset to a broader continuity‑focused approach.

Fitness is measured by the ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions. This shift is accelerated by AI, which now amplifies every phase of the kill chain: expanding attacker speed, scale, and sophistication.

The session examines how AI reshapes the overall risk landscape and provides leaders with a 20‑point action plan to strengthen cyber resilience and fight back effectively